Search Results for "Charles II"
Charleton eclectic
history of scienceAn early Fellow of the Royal Society wrote about stone circles, the human soul, natural history and scurvy, as well as penning a gushing tribute to King Charles II. Rupert Baker provides an introduction.
Turning a new page in the Charter Book
history of scienceWe present a digital version of what is arguably the Royal Society’s most important single historical document.
Restoration reading
history of scienceFelicity Henderson admires Robert Hooke's 'Micrographia' (1665), praised by Samuel Pepys as 'the most ingenious book that ever I read in my life'.